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Foreigner @56 retweeted
Exactly a week ago today, my two big brothers dressed me up as a lawyer. From Bush to Bar. God's Plan.
I've been a journalist for 16 years and I think it's a success. Now, I want to watch this new plan by God roll out.
From Cowboy to Journalist to Lawyer to Beyond The Limit... – at Apolonia, Ghana
Foreigner @56 retweeted
funds sent and fiifi has confirmed receipt.
thank you all so much ❤️❤️.
Foreigner @56 retweeted
1. Is Ghana out of the fiscal woods yet?
2. The exchange rate, inflation, policy rate, government borrowing costs, all seem to be pointing the right way.
3. Yet, banks are threatening to block new loans to government workers because the controller/accountant-general deducts loan payments from pay and holds on to them rather than remit to the banks.
4. Public sector workers feel hard done by.
5. Contractors, licensed cocoa buyers, and the "coalition of unpaid nurses" and "unpaid teachers from colleges of education" have been protesting for much of 2025 and 2026 about months-old ARREARS.
6. Howzat?
7. Is there a cashflow problem or not?
8. One answer sounds like "fiscal austerity". Government has more fiscal leeway than ever, they say, but it is being extremely prudent so that the country doesn't skid off the fiscal rails.
9. Finance Ministry mandarins talk about massive restraint on the debt markets, for instance.
10. Well, analysts are pointing to a pattern that suggests that this neat story isn't that simple.
11. We all remember DDEP. Most of us by way of trauma. After the government declared itself bankrupt in 2022, its long-term bonds were restructured.
12. For most casual observers of the fiscal scene, the pain of DDEP has led to government having to rely on short-term treasury bills and a recent bond issuance wasn't too encouraging.
13. The truth, like I hinted, is more complicated. Between October 2025 and June 2026, the government issued about GH¢32.9 billion of domestic bonds. That is almost $3 billion.
14. Yet, only GH¢2.7bn (~$240 million), i.e. the lackluster showcase seven-year bond in April, went through the publicised sale.
15. Roughly GH¢25bn (~$2.2 billion) came from "taps" of the old restructured bonds, i.e. the DDEP bonds. There was no public individual notice for these issuances that the average investor would have seen. Another GH¢5bn went straight to the Bank of Ghana.
16. The Finance Ministry's bulletin calls the April sale the first issuance since the 2023 debt exchange, yet its tables show about GH¢22bn having been issued quietly in the preceding six months by "tapping" (i.e. reopening and selling) the old bonds and pacifying the Bank of Ghana with a "recapitalisation" bond.
17. Priced at the market yields of the time, the taps cost about 14.2 per cent (model-inferred), against 12.5 and 12.0 per cent on the advertised deals. That is to say those investors who got approached to buy got a better deal than those who bought into the more open and transparent April deal. Or the taps were placed nearer face value and someone else absorbed the loss. How to know?
18. The state took on roughly GH¢25bn of debt for about GH¢20bn in cash, a gap of around GH¢5bn, plus GH¢1.9 - 2.4bn in extra interest over the bonds' life. These are inferred estimates.
19. Of course, parallel pricing of state/public debt is now becoming familiar in Ghana. On 25 September, the Treasury paid 4.68 per cent on three-month bills, while the central bank paid 10.50 per cent on two-week bills a few days later. That week, the central bank borrowed about GH¢24bn and the Treasury about GH¢2.9bn.
20. The central bank's interest bill on these operations doubled to GH¢16.73bn in 2025. That GH¢8.1bn rise almost cancels the GH¢8.8bn of "savings" the Treasury claimed from its acclaimed "tight management" of fiscal policy.
21. Basically, similar to the effect we pointed out in 2024 when the government started issuing undercover bonds and selling on juicier terms to a select few investors, ordinary savers forced to rely on treasury bills are earning far less than rich institutions with access to these mouth-watering government debt products.
22. Howzat?
Foreigner @56 retweeted
Greetings Hon @samgeorgegh. Trust you’re doing well.
You mentioned that the One Million Coders Programme is targeting 100,000 digital jobs in two years.
My question is: what has the Ministry done to create an environment where the tech talent Ghana already produces can find work, earn a living and build successful businesses?
Every year, our universities produce graduates with BSc Computer Science, BTech Telecommunications Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering, BSc Information Technology and other technology-related qualifications. Many already have coding backgrounds, technical skills and, in some cases, the ability to build functional products.
How many sustainable jobs has the existing tech ecosystem created for these graduates? How many are unemployed, underemployed or struggling to turn their skills into income?
The problem is not simply a shortage of people who can code. It is also the environment in which they are expected to use those skills.
Some graduates have ideas but cannot access capital to build their startups. Others secure international clients but face limitations with payment platforms and receiving money across borders. Ghana’s restrictions on PayPal’s full services, for example, have been a longstanding concern, with the Ministry itself engaging the company over the issue.
So, what concrete measures are being implemented to address these barriers? What funding opportunities exist for local tech startups? What partnerships are being established to connect Ghanaian developers to international companies? What incentives are being created for businesses to hire local talent? And what is being done to make it easier for digital entrepreneurs to receive payments, scale their products and compete globally?
Training one million people is a target for skills development. Creating 100,000 jobs is a different target altogether. The first does not automatically deliver the second.
The Ministry must therefore explain how it intends to bridge that gap. How many of these 100,000 will be newly created, paid jobs? How will the figures be verified? What proportion will be sustainable employment rather than short-term assignments? And how will the programme benefit graduates who already possess the skills being taught?
I am not arguing against teaching more Ghanaians to code. Digital skills matter, and more people should have access to them. But we must not confuse training people to participate in the digital economy with building an economy capable of absorbing their skills.
Before we celebrate another big employment target, let us see the ecosystem, the financing, the market access, the payment infrastructure and the actual jobs that will make it possible.
Ghana does not only need more coders. It needs an environment where coders can build, earn, innovate, employ others and succeed without unnecessary barriers.
So, Minister, beyond training people to acquire digital skills, what exactly are you doing to make Ghana a place where those skills can translate into livelihoods?
Thanks for your time🤝
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Foreigner @56 retweeted
I met @fitwithraj1 at GARH (Ridge) and I can confirm it is true. He is currently on admission and because it’s an unstable displaced tibiofibula fracture, some implants needs to be purchased to fix it. Let’s all come on board and help Raj walk again. He is a nice gentleman🙏
Foreigner @56 retweeted
Herh Chale Raj dey go through am o😪💔
Let’s come together to help a brother🙂↕️
Foreigner @56 retweeted
We don't have money to complete the Agenda 111 hospitals but we have money to paint 1.28m houses for Ghana @70
Foreigner @56 retweeted
We celebrate political personalities based on their charisma, demeanor, social standing, supposed intelligence, wisdom and knowledge.
We praise their speeches.
We admire how eloquently they articulate problems.
We call them brilliant when they sit in opposition and dissect everything the government is doing wrong.
But somehow, we often stop asking the most important question:
What are they actually doing with all that knowledge once they get the opportunity to govern?
Because being intelligent is not the same as governing intelligently.
Being knowledgeable is not the same as putting knowledge to work.
Being a brilliant opposition politician is not the same as being an effective public official.
And this is where our political culture needs to mature.
We seem to celebrate people for what they say they know, rather than what they actually accomplish with what they know.
The irony is that some people appear exceptionally clear-minded in opposition.
They identify the problems.
They explain the solutions.
They expose the failures.
They tell us exactly what they would do differently.
Then they assume power and suddenly the same problems become complicated.
The same solutions become impossible.
The same urgency disappears.
And somehow, the excuses begin.
Maybe the problem isn’t that our politicians suddenly lose their intelligence when they assume power.
Maybe we have simply been measuring the wrong things all along.
Charisma is not competence.
Education is not performance.
Wisdom is not results.
Good speeches are not good governance.
The real test begins when you have the authority, resources and institutions to turn what you know into something tangible.
That is when we should be watching.
That is when we should be measuring.
Not how brilliant you sounded in opposition, but what you did when Ghana finally gave you the power to act.
Foreigner @56 retweeted
This is exactly why we cannot give up.
How long are we supposed to continue like this?
You spend years in university accumulating knowledge and acquiring a qualification.
Then you spend another year serving the country through National Service.
And after that, what?
You join the queue to the job market.
If you are fortunate enough to know somebody, perhaps someone can place you somewhere. And sometimes, the level of the job you get, and even where you work, can depend less on what you studied or what you can do and more on who you know.
If you don’t have those connections, you are left at the mercy of an unforgiving labour market.
This isn’t just an emotional argument. Ghana’s own statistics show how serious the challenge is. In the first three quarters of 2025, youth unemployment among people aged 15–35 averaged 21.9%, almost twice the national unemployment rate. By the third quarter, nearly 2 million young people aged 15–35 were not in employment, education or training.
And this is happening to a generation that we keep telling to go to school, acquire skills and prepare for the future.
Prepare for what?
The queue?
Yes, Ghana has programmes such as National Service, youth employment and entrepreneurship initiatives. Government’s own budget documents recognise the need for school-to-work transition and youth employment support.
But the bigger question is whether the system is creating enough deliberate, sustainable pathways from education into productive work.
We need an economy capable of absorbing graduates.
We need stronger links between universities and industry.
We need private-sector expansion.
We need serious support for young people who want to build businesses.
We need public institutions that recruit based on transparent processes and actual need.
And we need to stop treating unemployment as though it is simply an individual failure to “work hard.”
Because what happens when thousands of qualified young people are all working hard but the economy isn’t creating opportunities fast enough?
They become frustrated.
They become dependent on connections.
They leave the country.
Or they join the growing population of young people who have skills but cannot find a productive place to use them.
So when we raise these issues, it isn’t because we hate Ghana.
It isn’t because we don’t appreciate the progress that has been made.
And it certainly isn’t because we simply want to make noise.
We are making noise because we want the country to work.
We want a young person to graduate and have a reasonable pathway into productive employment.
We want National Service to be more than the end of one queue and the beginning of another.
We want entrepreneurship to be more than motivational speeches.
We want opportunity to depend less on who you know and more on what you can contribute.
We want a Ghana where education is not simply preparation for unemployment.
#Ghanamustwork
And if we have to keep speaking about it until the system gets better, then we will keep speaking.
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Foreigner @56 retweeted
I'm deeply saddened by this man's death.
On a Sunday morning, during heavy downpour, he stopped his car to buy kooko. Moments later, he was in a drain, being swept away by floodwater after trying to rescue a girl who had fallen in and was also being swept away.
Foreigner @56 retweeted
Politics is the only reason some people hate Kwadwo Sheldon but truth be told the guy is huge.
I respect the man, he created employment. That's impact!
He's contributed enormously to the entertainment industry and that's a fact. I don't know how he does it but nigga is extremely good at what he does and he brags about it and he earns the right to do so!
Give honour to who honour due.
Don't compete the man, learn from him. Don't jealous the man, wait for your time.
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I’ll never forget October 1, 2026 Especially what happened to me as a content creator.
The day before, September 30, I spiralled.
I had just returned from Damongo. I hadn’t really rested, but I went out to shoot content because I needed to get it to my graphics guy for some animations.
While filming at Lapaz, we were confronted by some hawkers who thought we were recording them so authorities could come and drive them away from the roadside. A guy grabbed my phone, people gathered around us and, for a moment, it felt like things could get really bad.
It was embarrassing. It was exhausting. And honestly, it got to me
That night, I went on X and talked about how low my views had been. It wasn’t the first time I had felt that way, but something about that day broke me a little.
I posted and I slept.
Then I woke up. I saw plenty notifications
“KSS sent me.”
I started seeing the comments under my video.
At first, I thought it was the usual repost. But it wasn’t.
Then I opened X
@kwadwosheldon had reposted my content, acknowledged the work I’ve been doing and told people I deserved the views. He went even further and offered to have me collaborate with his page from now until the end of the year.
and personally messaged me, encouraged me and told me not to give up.
And then the love started coming.
People I didn’t even know started finding me. Sharing my work. Subscribing. Sending me messages. Giving me feedback.
In less than 24 hours, I gained over 1,000 subscribers.
The video is closing in on 60,000 views.
Then @EiiScanty came through too. And so many other people shared the video that I honestly can’t name everyone.
I also woke up to other good news from opportunities I had applied for months ago.
Then, as if that wasn’t enough, I received the most beautiful message from a young man I’ve been supporting over the past few months, telling me how much my presence had meant to him.
I cried.
Because sometimes life gives you so many reminders in one day that you can’t help but stop and say, “God, I hear You.”
And then came the moment that completely finished me.
Sheldon posted a video and, at the end, mentioned my name and asked people to go subscribe to my channel.
That meant more to me than I can properly explain.
Sheldon, you are my brother. You’ve seen my work for a while, and I know this wasn’t just about one post or one bad day.
I genuinely appreciate you for seeing me, encouraging me and using your platform to open a door for me.
You didn’t have to do any of this. But you did. And I will never forget it.
May God bless you tremendously. May He continue to enlarge your territory and keep you as one of the people pushing the new media space forward.
To Scanty, everyone who reposted, subscribed, commented, sent me a DM, gave me constructive criticism about my thumbnails, content and channel, and everyone who simply said “keep going” thank you.
I have read so many of your messages.
I’m listening. I’m learning. And I’m taking the feedback seriously.
Yesterday I was questioning my journey. Today, I’m reminded why I must keep going.
October 1, 2026.
I will never forget you
